UK
Video Premiere: Burner – “Hurt Locker”
September 7, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Watch UK’s hardcore tech death crushers Burner get elbows swinging in their new performance video for “Hurt Locker.”
Full Album Stream: The Sun’s Journey Through the Night – ‘Wordless’
July 27, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Hear the blistering new full-length, Wordless, from UK black metal fiends The Sun’s Journey Through The Night
Track Premiere: DeathCollector – “Death’s Toll”
May 25, 2023 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Hear a new track from DeathCollector, the band featuring former Bolt Thrower and Memoriam drummer Andrew Whale and Ashen Crown frontman Kieran Scott, then hear from them about it!
Track Premiere: Blacklisters – “Why Deny It?”
November 1, 2022 Adem Tepedelen
UK post-punkers Blacklisters embrace the inevitable on their noisy new single.
Q&A: Diamond Head Guitarist Brian Tatler On Previously Unheard ‘Lightning to the Nations’ Demos
October 4, 2022 Adem Tepedelen
Diamond Head guitarist Brian Tatler reveals the origins of the lost ‘Lightning to the Nations’ demos on the newly remastered reissue.
Demo:listen: Body Asphyxiation Science
December 28, 2021 Dutch Pearce
English sci-fi brutal death force Body Asphyxiation Science invades this week’s Demo:listen.
Demo:listen: Vaticinal Rites
November 9, 2021 Dutch Pearce
This week’s Demo:listen premieres the cerebral and crushing debut from UK-based next-level death rippers Vaticinal Rites.
Video Premiere: Mastiff – “Endless”
June 10, 2021 J. Andrew
In need of a good crushing? The new song and video from the blackened sludge-core devotees in Mastiff will get that out of your system.
Album Premiere: Bosphorus – ‘Slow Burn’
September 22, 2020 Dutch Pearce
Scottish post-hardcore sludgians Bosphorus slowly and carefully lower their massive, ground-shaking debut album Slow Burn.
Video Premiere: Dāmim – ‘Descendant of Amalek’
July 6, 2020 Emily Bellino
U.K. death dealers Dāmim release a new video for “Descendant of Amalek.”
Album Premiere: Fellwarden – ‘Wreathed in Mourncloud’
June 23, 2020 Dutch Pearce
Trailblazing English black metal act Fellwarden present their sprawling and atmospheric sophomore album, Wreathed in Mourncloud.
Video Premiere: Telepathy – “Pariah”
February 11, 2020 Dutch Pearce
UK-based atmospheric sludgewielders Telepathy set the tone of their forthcoming record, Burn Embrace, with this evocative video for “Pariah.”
Angrier and Faster: An Interview with Corrupt Moral Altar
September 21, 2017 Emily Bellino
Decibel caught up with UK grind collective Corrupt Moral Altar to talk about their destructive new album, Eunoia.
Track Premiere: Dyscarnate – ‘Iron Strengthens Iron’
July 27, 2017 Emily Bellino
Dyscarnate strike ‘With All Their Might’ with a new song and video.
All Your Heroes Dead? Grind to the UK’s Oblivionized and Razoreater
September 12, 2014 Daniel Lake
We at Decibel Magazine wish to apologize for not doing enough to support the development and dissemination of grind. By including occasional articles about other forms of heavy music, some of which include discernible tempos and recognizably human vocals, we have polluted the “scene” (which died 15 years ago, though our anger about it keeps…
Full Album Stream: Satanic Malfunctions
October 15, 2013 Justin Norton
It’s been more than 22 years since the UK hardcore act Satanic Malfunctions has released any music (Disgrace To Humanity, 1990). Decibel is proud to present a full album stream of the comeback Them, released by Selfmadegod and available for purchase here. After the stream check a quick q and a with drummer Ade. It’s…
A Day In the Life of UK Crossover Kings SSS
March 20, 2012 Adem Tepedelen
Ever wondered what the Liverpudlian quartet SSS did when they weren’t thrashing and crossing over? We did, too. We also just wanted to use the word “Liverpudlian.” Weird word obsessions and juvenile humor aside, apparently the folks over at Vice (along with Vans) decided to document 24 hours (more or less) with with the band…
Sneak Preview of an Upcoming UK Thrash Documentary
September 27, 2011 Adem Tepedelen
Because of the stature they have attained, much of the metal-loving world puts the Big Four as the sort of holy, uh, quadrinity of thrash metal. These are the bands—all American—that we consider the originators and finest progenitors of the genre. But not so fast. If we’re to look at many of the Big Four’s…